1984 For Women!! (Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood)

Member Name: spikette83

Product:	Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Date:	08/07/01 (79 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Prose, Worthy Plot, In-depth character anylasis

Disadvantages: Confusing Conclusion

This book is comparable to 1984, in which an all-controlling government is vividly illustrated.

It has the wonderful elements that make novels classics.

Adventure:Your heart thumps as you imagine what risks the main character is taking.

Romance:The young woman remembers better times, with her husband, often she longs for him.

Mystery:At the beginning of the novel you are pressed to know how this world, an all-controlling government where women are sex slaves and trophies, came to be. But Atwood does not reveal the entire explantion until the end. Throughout the novel you are fed tidbits of information.

Great Message:Atwood wants her readers to feel, understand, and sympathize for her characters. Once she has done this, she can then convey her theme of control, fear, and human instinct.

Wonderful Prose:Atwood is a poet as well as a novelist. This is reflected in all of her novels, including The Handmaid's Tale. She writes beautiful similes and describes rooms with such detail that you can taste the wood floor polish.

Set-Backs:Unfortunatly, the novels conclusion is dull and confusing. Instead of having an ending that explains what happened ultimatly to the characters, she leaves us wondering. In place of the conclusion she includeds a falsified study of the characters action at a confrence that takes place a 1,000 years into the4 future.

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